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- Title
Sex Quotas and Burkini Bans.
- Authors
Rosenblum, Darren
- Abstract
This Essay recounts how feminist theorists and activists managed to write their ideals into the fabric of French law and culture, and how nonfeminists began to appropriate those ideals. Parite, the 2000 law that requires half of all candidates for public office be women, saw French feminists first engineer a change in French universalism to respect sex difference; although not wholly successful, Parite advanced women's political inclusion. Then, like a dmp of water in a pond, these feminist ideas disappeared in plain sight: they became intrinsic to French state norms and public values. As they became woven into such norms, however, politicians began to use them to promote exclusions: first excluding Muslims from full participation in the Republic with veil and burqa bans, then supporting exclusions of sex and class with a corporate board quota (CBQ). Most recently, feminist ideas have been called upon to exclude French Muslims with proposed burkini bans.
- Subjects
BURKINIS; FRENCH Muslims; FEMINISM; ISLAMIC fundamentalism; BURQAS (Islamic clothing); LEGAL status of Muslims
- Publication
Tulane Law Review, 2017, Vol 92, Issue 2, p469
- ISSN
0041-3992
- Publication type
Article